Complex Systems

Abigail Jacobs

I am interested in how governance, communities, and inequality emerge in sociotechnical systems, and how the structure of sociotechnical systems encodes and reinforces these processes. To those ends, I develop empirical data and computational methods, focusing on latent variable models; statistical inference in networks; empirical design to study governance in organizations, platforms, and computational social ...

Elizabeth Bruch

I am a computational social scientist and sociologist. In addition to my appointments at Michigan, I am an external faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute and serve on their Science Steering Committee; I also serve on the advisory board for the Social Science Research Council’s Social Data Initiative. The vast amounts of activity data ...

Daniel Romero

My research focuses on the empirical and theoretical analysis of social and information networks. I am particularly interested in understanding the mechanisms involved in network evolution, information diffusion, and interactions among people on the Web and in complex organizations.

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Elizabeth Bruch

Associate Professor, Sociology, LSA Complex Systems, LSA

Abigail Jacobs

Assistant Professor, Information, School of InformationComplex Systems, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Daniel Romero

Associate Professor, Information, School of Information, Complex Systems, LSA, Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering